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I was born and raised in war.

— Ramzan Kadyrov

During my childhood and teenage years, everything I knew was at war. My mother and father were at war. My sister and I were…

— Viv Albertine

War defined my entire childhood and youth and most of my adulthood too - and in the US, it continues to do so.

— Ru Freeman

Those of us who were 12 or 13 when the war started were absolutely thrown into the mainstream. We had to grow up instantly…

— Angela Lansbury

I had a nice childhood. War and all the experiences affected me as a person and helped me to grow, to change.

— Novak Djokovic

No matter what era you're looking at - war affects things in so many different ways.

— Gary Cole

I was a happy child, just 9 years old, and I knew nothing about war.

— Phan Thi Kim Phuc

I realized how for all of us who came of age in the late sixties and early seventies the war was a defining experience.…

— Linda Grant

Growing up during World War II certainly affected my whole view of life, but I hardly know how, it goes so deep. What's hard…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

In war, more than anywhere else in the world, things happen differently from what we had expected, and look differently when near from what…

— Carl von Clausewitz

In War more than anywhere else in the world things happen differently to what we had expected, and look differently when near, to what…

— Carl von Clausewitz

Having been raised during the war, I know very well how childhood hampered by displacement, poverty, violence, and fear looks like.

— Edin Dzeko